Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.